Infinicore,,
Let me re-state my C) question ( posted pre-coffee , so please forgive me ,,lol).
Trackball/touchpad works in Hiren's menu from boot ,down into various programs on cd,no not in dos , sorry 4 brain fart.
Hiren is aviable from home site , since ver 9.9 , they removed all non free utilities.
Oh yeah same trackball /boot disk works / has worked fine on 3 other systems and xp ,vista, but not on dell / win 7.
My backup habit uses Ghost as the main star of the show.

Don't know about the trackball, could just be a glitch or some imposed restriction of Win 7 (don't get me started there ) for security's sake or something.

Ghost is alright as long as its been updated so its aware of new OSes or it only operates in its own DOS-like environment without involving the operating systems. I just looked up Hiren's and I guess you are using Ghost for Linux? If you are indeed using Norton Ghost from Hiren's it must be old, which is ok if you can still verify an image and don't mind always pausing your other Windows tasks to run the imaging in its own DOS-like environment.

Great scenery on the 3 hour tour ( i took the longer trail ,enjoyed it too).
Thanks to RetiredGeek and those on this thread who shared the knowledge.
I have set my system up as was laid out , worked great.
Seems the Dell touchpad / logitec trackball still are kinda haywire in non windows mode , but hey...
Thanks.

RetiredGeek, Thanks a lot for the reply but i just wanted to ask that should i do this because my C: drive seems to be set to ACTIVE and SYSTEM as in the screenshot posted above.
and I am pretty much a noob when it comes to partitions